Elizabeth Woodville: Mother of the Princes in the Tower
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xviii, 238pp. Indexed and illustrated with 14pp of b/w plate illustrations. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. DJ very slightly bumped at edges. Neat, tight and bright volume throughout barring inscription on front free endpaper and marginal annotations scattered throughout and manuscript notes on pp185-187, else near fine. Baldwin, in the first account of Elizabeth Woodville's life to appear for over 50 years, questions whether Edward IV's queen consort deserves her reputation for cold-hearted calculation and in doing so brings to life the personal and domestic politics of Yorkist England.